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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Lubbock, TX

August 28, 2014Childress County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2014, 5:10 PM CDT for Childress County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 28, 2014, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 2014, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Childress County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 677 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1429 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 28, 3:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 3:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 28, 5:46 AM CDT, 11 hours 24 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
546 AM CDT THU AUG 28 2014

TXZ021>044-291100-
PARMER-CASTRO-SWISHER-BRISCOE-HALL-CHILDRESS-BAILEY-LAMB-HALE-
FLOYD-MOTLEY-COTTLE-COCHRAN-HOCKLEY-LUBBOCK-CROSBY-DICKENS-KING-
YOAKUM-TERRY-LYNN-GARZA-KENT-STONEWALL-
546 AM CDT THU AUG 28 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN TEXAS
PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

CONVECTIVE

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF
THESE STORMS MAY BE STRONG...AND BRIEFLY SEVERE. LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ARE THE MAIN THREATS. IN ADDITIONS...STORMS
WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY RESULT IN
MINOR FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT...

LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 28, 4:50 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 28, 4:51 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 28, 4:54 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 28, 4:54 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 28, 4:59 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 28, 5:03 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 28, 1:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hall	30 min
Aug 28, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hall	32 min
Aug 28, 2:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hall	28 min
Aug 28, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hall	47 min
Aug 28, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hale	37 min
Aug 28, 3:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Hall	95 min
Aug 28, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd	23 min
Aug 28, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hall	49 min
Aug 28, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	29 min
Aug 28, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lynn	30 min
Aug 28, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Floyd	27 min
Aug 28, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	34 min
Aug 28, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Hall	46 min
Aug 28, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Floyd	29 min
Aug 28, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Lubbock	31 min
Aug 28, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Motley	10 min
Aug 28, 4:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Crosby	36 min
Aug 28, 4:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Childress, Hall, Motley	2 hr
Aug 28, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Motley	16 min
Aug 28, 5:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Lubbock	54 min
Aug 28, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LUB	Motley	16 min
Aug 28, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lubbock	22 min
Aug 28, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cottle, Motley	23 min
Aug 28, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cottle	41 min
Aug 28, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens	40 min
Aug 28, 6:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LUB	Cottle, King	117 min
Aug 28, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Dickens, King	25 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.